Happy New Year everyone! I was amazed to see this art from @ Uirusu_chan featuring a bunch of folk from the souls community!

Reminding you (and myself, honestly) that it's ok if you don't want to look back, recap, or reminisce today. It's ok to just want 2026 to get here with the least fanfare possible. If it was a "gg go next" kind of year for you, it's ok for this to just be a Wednesday. 🤷

To wrap this up, a tier list of all the games I played for the first time this year (whether completed or not). On the fence for some of these but I think this is the most accurate to me that I'll get.

This is true and I was the only one on set excited about it (and playing the song on my phone to blank stares)

Neo Arcadian Ink doodle

I understand the sentiment behind it but too many of y’all seemed way too eager to make clanker jokes in a way that seemed less about being anti AI and more about wanting to make jokes where the punchline is “this sounds like real slurs but about a fake thing” or “haha, it’s like old timey racism”

I love the three morons

gripe about this constantly but i truly hate that drivers take traffic lights as a suggestion. theyre there for a reason. i go when the light says "your turn!" so i need drivers to stop when the light for them says "Not your turn!", in a battle between your stupid cringe car and my body, i will lose

They say imitation crab is the sincerest form of crab

forgot to post this! little guys!

pro tip: talking about your passions is good for you and makes you happier

Undertaker sketch, not sure if I’ll finish this #EldenRing

I know things over on the other site may seem grim, but if you came here to give bluesky a chance please stick around My DM’s are always open to you all if you need help from this creature This is a safe place for vtubers Fuck. AI.

My Dark Souls 1 mod "A Peaceful World" is now out for everybody, for free. In this mod, you explore a Lordran with nobody left in it. Merry Christmas. www.patreon.com/posts/dark-s...

phantom of the citadel #silksong

Post con party 🎄 #GEEGArt #KanCraft #PorcelainMade #CuteSune #laimuart #zentreart #Art4Nina #grapefulart @/sykkuno

Firelink Shrine holiday card (circa 2021)

Fascinating that a lot of people's main gripe with Bluesky and their main reason for refusing to switch is that it's boring, and you can't scroll on here all day. That's probably good?

Made it to Christmas Eve before being sent to whamhalla. Got got by a damn cat video. Carry on without me 🫡

"No MSG added" cringe! add msg.

The confusion and conflation of ‘generative ai that is built on stolen artwork’ and ‘machine learning, character behaviour modelling and proc gen’ is intentional on the part of the grifters peddling the former. They benefit from murkiness of classification, because the latter predates their bollocks

Introducing: Somu's Dream Here is the trailer for our recently announced roguelite side mode! Explore small dungeons, fight enemies and get stronger with perks & blessings! It will be added in our early access version of the game next year. Read our new blog post: www.radicalfishgames.com?p=7879

feels like i caught this spindrift ingredients list in a lie and now it’s scrambling to double down

The numbers aren't even fucking real; you are intentionally being played by botnets that Twitter itself maintains for false engagement. This has been verified multiple times. It's a fake social media site run by nazis that you are giving your artwork, fandom and writing to support. Cut the cord.

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Hands down the funniest thing anyone has ever typed in mastodon

of all the things to suddenly pick up traction and take off why this one anyways if you want to see art i post it here sometimes. i like arknights and i have a docsona who currently occupies about 80% of my waking thoughts

Here’s a great idea: how about you just don’t use it in ANY part of the fuckin process then?? Gdi

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What this underscores is a fundamental truth that while none of the rest of us need supremacists in our spaces, and are just fine without them, supremacists need the rest of us or they collapse against each other. Without them we're fine. Without us they've got nothing.

I keep seeing people using ai "ironically" you are still feeding the machine you absolute dunce. "I know its ai slop but look at the funny I generated" Nah block that shit on sight, the less we normalize it the better chance of it dieing off

Hot take, but I think if you have an audience, you are responsible for that audience because they're a reflection of you. If folks are in your spaces harassing other people, especially on your behalf, and you choose to do nothing about it, you're letting everyone know that's acceptable to you.

50. Nine Sols And at 50 it's NINE SOLS! I'm ending on a high, Red Candle's masterpiece, I cannot recommend it highly enough, the Sekiro inspired combat is immensely good, the bosses are some of the best I've seen, it's hitting on Hollow Knight level of good, and the story and writing are top tier.

42. Unsighted Yeah, I recommend this a lot, but for good reason. Super fun top-down metroidvania where you're fighting against the clock as your friends are running out of life, it's tough and emotional, you can disable that feature, but I'd urge you to try your first playthrough as intended.

6. Alabaster Dawn This is the new game from the developers of Crosscode. It has a demo. Drop what you're doing and play it now.

I've spent a long time wondering if I'd ever speak on my channel, and I'm sure many of you have as well. It looks like it's finally time though. youtu.be/LYM1dmXp9Zs

毛づくろいうさぎ。 フリーアイコンです、使ってみてね。 個別保存用→ mof.chu.jp/icon2.html （いなほのwebサイトに飛びます）

I like Rian Johnson

Epic pays for licensing fees for the games they give away for free as promotions. Which means even if YOU aren't paying for it, you're giving money to JK Rowling to harm transgender people AND elevating her stature by giving her franchise higher numbers. NO TERF WIZARD GAME. NO TERF WIZARD SHOW.

Okay, I'll make a thread of 50 indie games which I'll add to over the week, staring with. 1. Carimara Play as a little goblin creature summoned by a witch to investigate what's haunting her cottage, it's a creepy bite-size mystery akin to the Frog Detective games, and has gorgeous visuals.

I am very much for making it clear and evident that AI is unwelcome and worthless and that your work is real, but a standardised stamp very easily teachable to a machine is just doing the work for them. its telling them this thing is good to scrape for a dataset since its not generated. its a target